• inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world
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    Maybe if they stopped voting for fucking Republicans and start fixing the climate they wouldn’t be all kinds of fucked as climate change causes insurance companies to say fuck these southern states.

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        We have a choice between 2 main groups. One believes there’s a climate problem of human making. The other does not.

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          I understand that. I just also believe that they will ultimately do nothing about it in a meaningful way. I hope I’m wrong.

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        Of course they are, it’s why they are using their weather control powers to cause all of these storms. Duh.

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          They’re clearing out the coast so they can more easily mine lithium.

          This is legitimately a conspiracy theory being pushed and parroted by fucking morons people who voted red

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            Okay there, go ahead and provide your evidence that Democrats are just as bad as Republicans then.

            I’m not playing the “do the research” bullshit that you hear from MAGA morons.

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      Im from Florida and it’s so frustrating that we are always just 1 or 2 percent away from voting out these morons but we all have to suffer because the old people vote their shriveled asses off.

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      Yeah, it seems like the only reasonable (in their mind) explanations should be it’s either climate change or the wrath of God. Either way, it should indicate they need to do something different.

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    Those damn democrats and their weather control devices are trying tontake out Trump.

    /s

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    So, to take a page from their book…their God must be hella mad at them for the decisions they made and actions they have taken…OR, tHe LibZ ConTrOL thE WeaThEr!

    We may never know.

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      Is it though? I thought this was normally a late August or early September thing

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        Historically, storms that start with the letter M average start date is around Oct. 24, so Milton is earlier than expected based on previous data. Hurricane season used to end in November, but we seem to be approaching conducive conditions year round.

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      I know this isn’t a great thing to say due to housing costs, but I think you really need to find a different place to live than a boat because hurricanes are only going to get worse.

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        I’m pretty sure they know what they’re doing better than you. I imagine the mangroves will protect them fairly well from damage, and as long as they have power and their bilge pump is working they shouldn’t sink. The water is probably pretty shallow anyway, so that might not even be possible.

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        I was recently looking at printed tiny houses. Some are pretty sturdy, and 0 carbon. They are pricier than tiny prefab but with no energy bills to speak of and sturdier construction, I’m wondering how they will fare in our area.

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          People who end up moving into tiny houses often regret it because they don’t really consider what ‘tiny’ means (things like not being able to cook a really nice meal because your kitchen is so small or just the inconvenience of having to go up and down a ladder at night if you need to use the bathroom).

          The online real estate resource polled more than 2,264 U.S. adults about what they wish they had done differently with their current housing. A whopping 44 percent of participants had housing regrets, and the biggest regret among homeowners had to do with size. One in three homeowners said they wish they had chosen a larger home, compared to only nine percent who wished they had downsized.

          https://www.countryliving.com/real-estate/news/a44021/tiny-house-regret/

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            Thanks for your reply. Meals wouldn’t be an issue. I’d be cooking dinner for my child and their partner at their place, so they wouldn’t have to worry about dinner and washing up, after work, and the model I’m looking at is single floor. I was more wondering about sturdiness in bad weather.

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                  Steel frame construction with tstud sub structure and full insulation envelope clad in brick.

                  Or do a monolithic dome tiny house.

                  Both would be sturdy as hell and very energy efficient, which addresses climate change better than insulating a Home Depot shed.

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        As I understand it, mangrove swamps are a great place to ride out storms in a boat. They naturally reduce waves, and should help cut down on some of the wind. There’s a whole demonstration of how they work in the Keys. Can’t remember where I saw it.

        Obviously it would be better to not be in the path of the storm, but if you have to be, there are much worse places than around mangroves.

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    Well shit. I’ll have to put up the shutters 1 week after taking them down.

    My poor garden. All I can think of is all the fruit and veggies that are gonna get blown away

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    Originally they thought that Helene would be a cat 3, too.

    But the Democrats aim with the Hurricane machine proclaimed by MTG is getting better. Maybe the third try actually turns Mar-a-Lago into a pile of rubble.

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      I’m on the team running the weather machine this time. We are very excited for this run!

      After gathering so much data from the last several storms, we finally have the power to call hurricanes and tornadoes exactly where we want them to go!

      We’ll be feasting on the fetuses Boden personally hands us after this run, fellas!

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        Great, you just gave maga all the fully verified truth they need to confirm their insanity…

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        I just put 3,000 Soros bucks into the Jade Helmet system with instructions to level the homes of any florida lemmygrad commenters in this post. You’re doing “there is no god”’s work, friend.

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      It was a pleasant surprise to hear the Meterologist on the video in that article specifically explain warming oceans from carbon are causing the increased frequency/intensity.

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      Well fortunately most of Florida is about 3 feet above sea level, so this is a problem that will fix itself before long.

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      This happened in 2005 as well, except with 3 hurricanes; Francis, Ivan, and Jeanne. I doubt climate change has gotten better since then.

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      And the ground is still saturated from Helene, so it’s not going to be absorbing much of the water. The flooding will be far worse than a cat 5 on dry ground.

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      Oh wow it was literally just a cat 4 like a couple hour ago.

      So this is now one of the fastest developing storms ever now and it hasn’t even gotten moving. And halved the time needed for “rapid development” as a tag.

      We are gonna need some new terms for these mega hurricanes.

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    Climate change is a bitch, huh, Republicans who’ve spent thirty years denying it? (My heart goes out to all the people in the southeast who actually didn’t spend decades denying its existence and hampering efforts to slow it.)

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    Wow that GOP rep that said democrats created the hurricane is going to have to start working overtime to sell the argument again. At some point the people in the red states must start to wonder why it’s so coincidental that the predictions from the left (science) keep coming true.

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      You presume that that information reaches them and that they’re willing to consider it.

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      Well, at least their aim is much closer to Mar-a-Lago this time. Maybe the next major hurricane gets the direction right, and then the Democrats will dial it up to a cat5 or better! /s